How I did with my 2024 goals and some Stats

I did not do any reading challenges in 2024 and that was good for me. I did set reading goals and will work through each one so we can see how I did. Also, I will be sharing an overall look at my 2024 year of reading after the goals, so stick around and see some nerdy statistics 😉

Here WERE my 2024 Reading Goals:

1. Read 200 books for the Goodreads Challenge- ✔ I read 227
2. Have a less pressured 2024-this looks like no reading challenges, and way less ARCs.  I am doing reading tracking instead of challenges.  ✔ it was less pressure and I kept up with the reading tracking.
3. No more than 3 ARCs a month, less is more. Priority reads only! ⛔ I read 42 ARCs last year which is more than I had wanted to do.
   
4. Continue to cut back on buying books.  ✔ I did buy less books than I had in previous years. I did a lot less impulse buys and library sales. 
5. AND, less visits to the library... ⛔ I read 44 books from the library, not counting the 40 I read on Hoopla 😂 What can I say, I love my library!
6. So that I can continue to read more of what I own. ✔ I am calling this a win
7. Continue to work on completing series, no specific goal this year, last year I completed 19. ✔ I finished 15 series
8. Continue to try new authors, again, no set goal. ✔ I tried 77 new authors this year
9. Try more classics-maybe one month, or one a quarter. ✔ I am calling this a win, I read a few classics this year
10. Read 2 Kindle Unlimited books a month-I have been paying for this subscription for several years, last year I only read 16 which doesn't make the subscription worth it. If I don't read at least 2 books a month, I need to cancel this subscription. ✔ I am calling this a win
11. Read books I already own on my KINDLE-maybe one a month?  ✔ I am calling this a win

Here are where things are going to get interesting:

12/31/23 these are my Goodreads stats:

ALL= 3,483                       NOW: 3582 

Read=1435                       NOW: 1664

Want to read=720              NOW: 797 (and I read from this list this past year!😂)

Kindle NF own=19              NOW: 20

Kindle Fiction own=685     NOW: 437

Own NF=35                      NOW: 34 (I read more than 1, but got more as the year went on)

Own Fiction=213               NOW: 203

So, while it looks like my numbers have not gone down, even while doing a lot of reading, they did!

• I started with 213 of my own fiction, read 42 of my own books, but then bought some, and was gifted others.
• Kindle fiction started with 685, I read 24, and deleted a bunch I was never going to read.
• Out of the 227 books I read/DNFd 138 were already on my TBR before 2024!
• out of the 38 books I bought in 2024, I have already read 19!
• 135 of the books I read this year were part of a series!
• My most read authors were Lisa Phillips, Annah Conwell, and Jen Atkinson reading 7 books from each of them, followed closely by Patricia Bradley, Courtney Walsh, and Jaime Jo Wright reading 6 books from them.
• 12% of my reading was nonfiction
• My most read genre was Romance

Overall, I am happy with my reading year and goals, but will be doing a bit of tweaking for 2025. Were you happy with where you ended up for 2025?